Thank you all so, so much for all your lovely comments so far! I'm very excited about this piece, and to see that others are as well is the best I could have hoped for!
I'm also considering opening up a LiveJournal account for this story, as I'd love to be including pictures and varying the formatting. I'll let you know if I do, as the last time I tried it, I just couldn't get my head around it!
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BRAD ELLIS
There are a number of places where this story could start, but when you look at it, nearly all threads link back to one man: Ryan Sanderson.
Contrary to popular belief, running a Glee club certainly does take skill. It was as skill that Lillian Adler happened to have, and that her successor, the aforementioned Mr Sanderson, did not. Despite this, it took a sight witnessed by young student Barbra Addison for his reign over the music department to end.
It later transpired that the accusations, while not entirely false, had been exaggerated. Whether it was because Barbra was flaming in jealously as Hank Saunders, the alleged victim of the situation, had been given a solo that she desired, or whether she was simply tired of the rapidly decreasing standard of musical opportunities offered to her remains to be seen. However, the damage had been done. Ryan Sanderson was fired, and the activity of the Glee club abandoned.
It's then that Chris Williams, an unlikely Spanish teacher trapped in the small town life cycle, took his moment to step up. There are many reasons why Mr. Williams probably should never have taken over the club; a heavy workload, his almost-parasitic wife and a fondness for the band Journey to name just a few. However, there was one reason why he did want to take it over. He wanted to restore the club to glory he had experienced winning the National Show Choir Championships and to give the students a chance to sing in a group where they could feel accepted and their talents could be shared.